The 1896 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1896 college football season. The Bulldogs finished with a 13–1 record under first-year head coach Sam Thorne. The team recorded nine shutouts and won its first 13 games by a combined 212 to 29 score. It then lost its final game against rival Princeton by a 24–6 score.
Two Yale players, quarterback Clarence Fincke and tackle Fred T. Murphy, were consensus picks for the 1896 College Football All-America Team. Leslie's Weekly also picked three other Yale players (ends Lyman Bass and Louis Hinkey and center Burr Chamberlain) as 1896 first-team All-America players.
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Roster Abbott, T Alport, T Lyman M. Bass, E Hamilton F. Benjamin, HB Butler, FB Charles Chadwick, G Burr Chamberlain, C George S. Chauncey, FB W. Boudinot Conner, E Drummond, G Alfred H. Durston Morris Ely, QB Clarence Fincke, QB Gerard, QB Gilmore, HB Goodwin, HB John A. Hall Josiah J. Hazen, E Alfred H. Hine Louis Hinkey, FB King, HB Alexander B. Marvin John S. McFarland, C Paul D. Mills, HB Morris, G Fred T. Murphy, T Lang Murray, G Post, T James O. Rodgers, T Dudley Sutphin, G Leonard H. Van Every, HB Wright, HB
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